A view shows houses of Palestinians at Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
July 20, 2018
GAZA (Reuters) – Israel and Hamas have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, said on Saturday.
“With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters.
On Friday, Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli soldier along the Gaza border and the Israeli military launched dozens of strikes into Gaza that killed four Palestinians, including three Hamas fighters.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by James Dalgleish)
